Had to travel for 2 weeks around the UK with colleagues from different departments and while most were interesting and fine there were a couple who only talked about work, and work alone, the same shit over and over, and no insight or even complaints or anything to engage with, just statements.

I sat next to this guy who seemed to know every single detail about every artist and every song that was played on some shitty local radio station they pumped out to keep us proles numbed. He could tell you what Phyllis Nelson was having for Sunday dinner on the day that Move Closer took the #1 chart spot. He was a regular at local pub quizes and prided himself on the amount of general knowledge he had and what he knew about things.

However, he also had no opinions about anything. If you tried to engage him in any sort of conversation beyond his trivia snippets he'd just look at you blankly or make some funny little noise and turn away as though the conversation was over. It wasn't even as though he would regale you with interesting facts that you may not know, which would have at least been more captivating than the 60% advert airplay of Dragon FM. The only information he volunteered was relative to the song currently playing on the radio.

8 hours a day I sat next to him. 8 hours a day doing data entry. 8 hours.

literally all I need to know is if he can go to a site tomorrow and he ALWAYS spends about ten minutes telling me every single detail about how the parts work, why he needs to do it, what the guy he just spoke to on the phone said to him. MY GOD.